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Wednesday Market Place

Wednesday Market c1955
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Hi, I would just like to add that the old photographs in this collection of Beverley, Market Places, are indeed old photographs of Saturday Market. That is, all except B80045 which is a photograph of Wednesday Market. The Fiveways Cafe in Wednesday Market was named Fiveways as you can arrive at it from five different roads.

The Lock

I was looking through the photes of Beverley, the man in the picture of the Lock, in the flat cap and shirt sleeves must be Mr Block. He used to come round to my house when I was a boy selling mushrooms that he collected on Figham.

Beck Side

My father lived at 7 Beck Side North as a child having moved there from Hull. The gardens were long and contained fruit trees. His father was a keen gardener. The neighbours kept cows and sold milk! My father fell in the beck aged 3 but managed to get out.

Beck Road South Now Waterside Road

I lived with my family, the Widdowsons, at 6 Beck Road South from 1938 to the late 50s. Dad, Douglas, was the Branch Manager at the Co-op at Register Square in town. I remember playing cricket on Crane Hill with our friends. Because we were not 'professionals' the ball was given a swipe and inevitably ended up in the Beck - all the time. We had an old bucket on a piece of string to fish it out. It was the only ball we had - 'it was wartime' we were told over and over again. The ball was always wet and black and smelly. The Beck was heavily polluted in those days. But we never caught anything and, thankfully, never fell in. We played on the road as well because there were no cars, and I have plenty of scars on my legs and arms from falling between the wickets as we tried to score runs. I remember the Cherry twins, Bette and Mary and the Scaife... Read more

Place of Birth

I was born in Catfoss at Astral House. Is there anybody out there who knows of this place and where it is today? dmoore@leedsth.nhs.uk 8,ls14 1 br

I Lived in Little Weighton

I lived in Little Weighton many years ago.  My grandparents lived in Little Weighton. They were called Albert and Nellie Wright, who had a paper round for a business, and my other gran named Millie Shirtcliffe. They lived up New Village Road where my brother Chris lives now.
I was christened at Rowley Church and my grandparents are buried there. I have some lovely memories of Little Weighton and the area. I remember the trains at Little Weighton. Also the dog training between my grandparents houses in New Village Road.
Does anybody remember me?
I also remember the Police House and a house near there that used to sell ice cream through a small window, also the doctors being in the village hall.
My grandmother used to be married to Jack Shirtcliffe and Millie Shircliffe used to work as a postwoman and had a small shed behind the shop where she used to sort out the mail.
I used to live on new village road on the bend in a... Read more

My First And Last Jobs in Hull

Savings Bank c1965
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This is a photo of the Derringham Branch of the Hull Savings Bank where I started as a junior bank clerk at the age of 16 on 31st August 1965, probably around the time when this photo was taken. It certainly looks right.

This was my first job after leaving Riley High School, just down the road from the bank. The heating in the building was powered by a big coal fired boiler in the cellar and one of my main tasks was to shovel coal down the coal chute and stoke the boiler, not what I had expected when I had applied for a job as a bank clerk and all this for the princely salary of £325 a year.

What a lovely buiding this was, especially in 1965. Polished wood panelling everywhere; solid mahogany counter; highly polished (and dangerously slippery!) parquet floors where the staff worked and a beautiful mosaic floor in the customer area with the Kingston Upon Hull three crowns crest set... Read more

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